{"id":475522,"date":"2026-05-08T23:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/475522\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:51:18","slug":"the-new-celebrity-traitors-cast-is-missing-the-one-ingredient-that-made-last-years-show-so-great-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/475522\/","title":{"rendered":"The new \u2018Celebrity Traitors\u2019 cast is missing the one ingredient that made last year\u2019s show so great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft5 indo-1d70522a_marginright5 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The line-up for this year\u2019s \u2018Celebrity Traitors\u2019 cast has left fans giddy, with \u2018big dogs\u2019, comedy royalty and the genius combination of Ross Kemp and James Blunt. But where are the straight-talking, luvvie-immune sports stars like last year\u2019s breakout hero Joe Marler?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From left: Joe Lycett, Ross Kemp, James Blunt, Joanne McNally, Jerry Hall, Bella Ramsey and Richard E Grant are part of the 2026 line-up\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/29d5b1f6-f611-417a-917a-9bd2b3900bbc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft5 indo-1d70522a_marginright5 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">From left: Joe Lycett, Ross Kemp, James Blunt, Joanne McNally, Jerry Hall, Bella Ramsey and Richard E Grant are part of the 2026 line-up<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Never has reality TV boasted a starrier line-up than this year\u2019s Celebrity Traitors. The inaugural star cast from 2025 was already something special \u2013 from Stephen Fry and Jonathan Ross to Celia Imrie and Charlotte Church \u2013 but the latest edition makes it look measly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are the thesps (Richard E Grant, Michael Sheen, Bella Ramsey, Myha\u2019la), the comedians (Miranda Hart, Romesh Ranganathan, James Acaster, Joe Lycett), the pop stars (Leigh-Anne Pinnock, James Blunt), and the presenters (Maya Jama, Amol Rajan, Hannah Fry). Twenty-one names, all genuine coups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The line-up for this year\u2019s \u2018Celebrity Traitors\u2019 cast has left fans giddy, with \u2018big dogs\u2019, comedy royalty and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[99378,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-475522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-daily-features","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116541645989920527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}